Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-03-03
HOW TO LIVE.

Verify, One Mans Neat is snothsr n.a,. p.,...
From the Brooklyn Sunday Eagl.
The difference in the views ever,
physicians as to the best means !.
keeping the clock-work Of liiegoins e. :.
almost as great as the original ,ais.s
ences in the time pieces themsclsss
Some people think it necessary t. g. s.
three or four meals day in ords, ).
keep their lives agoing, while oths...
declare that the chief destroyer os sss
and health is food Itself. Wha, =
sleek, well-fed man called on Aha.,s
thy and complained of a general bread
up in health, the quaint old EsclIan;,,.
said: "Give up your dinners. i've =
sixpence q day and earn ~
The ancients were generalIv ~
tent with two square meals
day, the prandium and the Con-
and many modern philosophers b.s's
found that they feel much lighter - ~
riore comfortable when they ear 80 ~
twice in twenty-four hours. otbas
on the contrary, both plysie;s,,a
and laymen, whenever they see 4 sc
son in weak health recommend NJ.
iood, and when the dyspeptic ansss. s
that tough Chicago beef. s,eb - -
Brooklyn is now rejoicing in. does ,a =
"slt easy on his bosom's lord .1-.sS ~
stomach--enJreat him or her to tss -
more nourishment, such as ielly ev ,s,s
tive minutes, beef tea every hour ~
tiers before going to bed, and no,t
wine whenever a faint feeling eoms me-
upon them. Sir Robert Peel baia.s.
he made any great effort in III
English house OF commons, ussa
to eat big, rare, rump steak with
a bottle of port. Pitt and For ussd
to take two bottles OF the sanas
seductive fluid, and so did Lord Chan.
cellor Eden every night of his life Il,
fifty years. One man thinks horn.
will keep him strong; another. rov;n.
a third, walking so many miles every
day without any object; fourth. 81.
ing to bed at particular hour every
night; fifth. oatmeal every murning.
a sixth, bathing every Gay, and q
forth. Physical exertion is no doubt
one OF the greatest preservatiyes Il
life and health, but when oyerdope +
has killed thous ands of strong men
by heart disease, consumption. apo.
plexy or paralysis. Mr.. Gladstone
has recruited his strength Tor many
years Telling trees, and his diet is yerv
simple, a little fish, some bread and
cheese and half a pint bitter ale often
serving him for a dinner at his elabait-
err hard days work. Other brain
workers, like Archbishop Whately.
have had enormous appetites and
been equal to three ordinary
men at a dinner table. Pure
air and water have a great deal to do
with longevity, so much so that The
lake districts of Westmoreland. Eng
land, the average age of those who
died during recent very severe vim.
ter was above eighty-fve years.
| Some sanitarians are always say;
ing, Take a rest; let your mind IL!
| fallox; don't work so n,nch.n and
seem to think that brain work espe
cially is a constant drain upon one' s
vital capital. Others, | believe nor!
| truly, look upon idleness as the real
"thief of time" and point to thegreatl
workers who have lived to grand
old age Mathematicians claim that
even the absorbing mental process of
working out difficult problems is cons|
ductive to longevity. Liebnitz. they
tell us, lived his seventy years, Euhle|
his seventysix, Lagrange his seventy
seven, Lapiace his seventy eight
years, while Sir Isaac Newton died at
| eighty-fve, Plato at eighty-tuol
Archemedes at seyenty-fye, and the
somewhat mythical Pythagoras at
ninety Some of these ancients, howl
ever, were not eminent mathemati7
clans, but may be cIassed as genera
philosophers, natural or metaphysi3
cal. Poets do not always die beiore
their time, az Keats and Byron and
Arthur Hugh Clough did On the con-
trary, the much-abused TennysoHj
| whom have seen drinking hearty
at the crystal palace, Syndenham, q
that great natural English institution
bitter pale ale, will survive, / pro-
phesy, all the terrible criticisms on b.
conservatism, which have been naad4
about his last poem, and perhaps
most severely by the ex-Prime Minis
ter Gladstone, who conferred his ear
dom upon him.